today's leftovers
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Mastodon, Steampipe, and RSS
A first version of the dashboard, having only this data to work with, just listed the names of tags matching the search term along with corresponding URLs. Here was the initial query.
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Free Software Foundation Bulletin, Issue 41 - Fall 2022
1. Protect your freedom by managing your privacy
2. GHM 2022 in Turkey: A personal reflection
3. Copyright assignment with the FSF
4. Charting a course to a free world
5. New upcoming release of Trisquel 11, codenamed Aramo
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React-Explorer 2.3.1 - PCLinuxOS
React-Explorer is an electron based file manager that provides split-view, tab support, and full keyboard controls. Now available in the PCLinuxOS software repository.
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lladdr-tied interface config support has been committed
Support for lladdr-tied configuration of (network) interfaces [on which we reported earlier] has been committed. Andrew Fresh (afresh1@) made the commit: [...]
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THIS is my LINUX Alternative to Windows 11
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upcoming directory authority changes
Later today (Tuesday) we plan to do a synchronized shift where we make two configuration changes on the directory authorities. The goal will be to make these changes while maintaining the right threshold of signatures so relays and users still get a safe network status consensus that they trust.
For background, Tor uses a threshold consensus design, where as long as a majority of directory authorities are behaving properly, all users get the same accurate view of the Tor network. You can learn more about the design in the bottom half of
https://support.torproject.org/about/key-management/.Specifically, we plan to make these changes: [...]
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Two new agricultural technology projects join the Call for Code community at the Linux Foundation [Ed: Openwashing with Microsoft proprietary software]
OpenTempus provides long-term climate forecasts, and OpenHarvest provides insight into crops, fields, and yields.
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the release of two open source projects that help small-holder farmers use data to make more effective decisions about what, when, and where to plant. These projects join the Call for Code with the Linux Foundation.
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Day 6 (Advent of Code 2022)
Our input is a jumble of letters, and we're supposed to find the position of the first substring that's "four different characters".
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Getting ChatGPT to write a Linux kernel module for me
I’ve been doing some Linux kernel development in my spare time over the past 6 months or so. The goal has been to get my old Chumby 8 (stock kernel 2.6.28) running on a modern kernel with custom firmware. It has been going really well and there have been lots of fun problems I’ve needed to solve along the way. I may write some posts about that process if there is any interest. It’s been a blast.
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Stack Overflow Bans ChatGPT
Stack Overflow is “banning” the use of ChatGPT (post). I know more than a few programmers who sought to farm some free internet points by answering questions with the help of ChatGPT. It’s an obvious and existential question for Stack Overflow, which makes sense why we’re doing the thought experiment here first.